Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 8 you say, in part: "The winning of the war has not begun and . . . its losing has gone on apace. . . . Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone...
Fateful Effects. Never before had North Africa seemed so near and so vital. From Cairo to Washington and London went a momentous memorandum, listing the danger to Britain's last hold on the Mediterranean: the fateful effects if Germany, by finally winning North Africa, achieves a junction with the Japanese and cuts the chief supply line from the U.S. to Russia and the U.S. Army's air-ferry lines to India and China. It recited the enormous value of the Allies' North African bases, within air reach of the Middle East, Russia and southern Europe (where...
...press was guessing when it portrayed Winston Churchill arriving in the U.S. with the plea: "Save Suez!" But Churchill has got a clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news...
...moratorium on "hates" between Americans, particularly those involving capital and labor, was urged as vital to the war effort by Dr. Benjamin M. Selekman, associate professor at the Business School, in the most recent issue of the Harvard Business Review...
...Cleveland, metallurgists of Union Carbide & Carbon—biggest U.S. maker of ferrochrome, vital ingredient of stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel)—announced that at last the behavior and strength of stainless steel under aerial conditions can be predicted with scientific exactitude...